Modern population
Alawite
Alawite
Alawite is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Alawite), with 11 samples from Syria.
Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Lebanese Druze, Druze and Lebanese Shia Muslim Beirut, and among ancient ones Lebanese Christian Maronite, Lebanese Muslim Shia and Lebanese Christian Greek Orthodox.
- Period
- Modern
- Country
- Syria
- Origin
- Syria
- Sampled near
- Adana 37.00, 35.32
- Samples
- 11
- Published in
- LazaridisKrauseNature2014
- Catalogue
Alawite
Nearest populations
Distance between population averages in scaled G25 space, ×100. Lower is closer. It says who resembles this population, not who descends from it; an nMonte model tests that.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lebanese DruzeLebanese_Druze | 0.75 |
| 2 | DruzeDruze | 1.12 |
| 3 | Lebanese Shia Muslim BeirutLebanese_Shia_Muslim_Beirut | 1.23 |
| 4 | Lebanese MuslimLebanese_Muslim | 1.28 |
| 5 | Lebanese Orthodox Christian KouraLebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura | 1.74 |
| 6 | Karaite EgyptKaraite_Egypt | 1.78 |
| 7 | Lebanese Maronite Christian ZghartaLebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta | 1.80 |
| 8 | Lebanese Sunni Muslim DinniyehLebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh | 1.88 |
| 9 | Syrian HamaSyrian_Hama | 1.90 |
| 10 | Lebanese ChristianLebanese_Christian | 2.03 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lebanese Christian MaroniteLebanese_Christian_Maronite | 1.87 |
| 2 | Lebanese Muslim ShiaLebanese_Muslim_Shia | 1.94 |
| 3 | Lebanese Christian Greek OrthodoxLebanese_Christian_Greek_Orthodox | 1.97 |
| 4 | Southeast Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey)Turkey_SoutheastByzantine | 2.74 |
| 5 | Viminacium Roman elite 2 (Antiquity, Serbia)Serbia_Viminacium_Roman_elite_2 | 2.74 |
| 6 | Ej Jaouze Phoenician (Iron Age, Lebanon)Lebanon_EjJaouze_Phoenician | 2.79 |
| 7 | Levant (Medieval, Lebanon)Levant_LBN_MA | 2.90 |
| 8 | Roman Byzantine 3 (Medieval, Turkey)Turkey_RomanByzantine_3 | 2.91 |
| 9 | Chhim Phoenician (Iron Age, Lebanon)Lebanon_Chhim_Phoenician | 2.91 |
| 10 | Lebanese Muslim SunniLebanese_Muslim_Sunni | 3.00 |
Individuals 11
The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.
| Sample | Sex | Site |
|---|---|---|
Adana23108 | M | Adana |
Adana23136 | M | Adana |
al001 | Syria | |
al002 | Syria | |
al003 | Syria | |
al004 | Syria | |
al005 | Syria | |
al006 | Syria | |
al007 | Syria | |
SRS8752128 | Syria | |
SRS8752678 | Syria |